To cross the first threshold and be searchable within WhiteHouse.gov, a petition must reach 150 signatures within 30 days.

To cross the second threshold and require a response, a petition must reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days.

As of this writing, there are 280 searchable petitions. Some of them a pretty mainstream, such as the one to legalize Marijuana with 18,268 signatures and some are a bit odder, such as the petition to recognize Sasquatch as an indigenous species and ban the hunting of them (1,041 signatures), and to recognize International Talk Like a Pirate Day September 19 (2,077 signatures), and to ABOLISH the petitions (896 signatures)!

The petition with the most votes is one to recognize the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group (328,279), and the second is to investigate their tax-exempt status (82,769). There are several to impeach Obama if he takes away our guns.

It’s interesting to see what people are concerned about beyond the headlines.

Taitz tried to start a White House petition, but she violated their privacy policy when she posted Obama’s social-security number. She has since moved from the White House to the Congress with her petition at Petition2Congress.com. This unofficial site says that it sends letters and emails to Congress. The best description I found of the site was in its slightly hard to find privacy policy. As of this writing, Taitz had 12,398 emails sent on behalf of her petition’s 4,875 signers. Taitz thinks she has 12,000 signers, but she doesn’t. The White House petition requires one to create an account with a valid email address. It appears that the site Orly uses let’s you just make up a name and use a non-existent email address, so even the 4,875 number is questionable.

8 Responses to White House moves petition goalposts

“4,813 People Have Sent 12,234 Letters and Emails” … more fodder for the crank files. Birfers don’t seem to understand the volume of lunacy congressional offices entertain everyday. Spamming the crap out of them on a dismissed issue will have no effect whatsoever.

More false hope for birfers.leads to more predictable disappointment for birfers, leads to more predictable anger, leaves them desperate enough to cling to the next false hope.

Even if that wasn’t the case, they should’ve taken a clue like “We’ve been sending angry letters to Congress for 5 years now and not one of them has gone birther, what do we do? Oh, I know, send more angry letters to Congress!”.

The Magic M: Even if that wasn’t the case, they should’ve taken a clue like “We’ve been sending angry letters to Congress for 5 years now and not one of them has gone birther, what do we do? Oh, I know, send more angry letters to Congress!”

Birthers (and much of the GOP) are like Wile E. Coyote.
Always trying to do the same thing via some new method and failing yet again.
For this, they call themselves Super Geniuses.

aesthetocyst:
“4,813 People Have Sent 12,234 Letters and Emails” … more fodder for the crank files. Birfers don’t seem to understand the volume of lunacy congressional offices entertain everyday. Spamming the crap out of them on a dismissed issue will have no effect whatsoever.

Well, the petition business lets them at least count their numbers more accurately. Which kinda begs the question “Why aren’t 150 million Americans signing those petitions if, allegedly, they are all birthers?”. Probaby the evil Soros machine strips the final 3 digits and they have 4.8 million signatures already.

Well, Poe’s Law, Magic M’s Corollary: You can’t make up a birther claim that won’t be topped by an even sillier actual birther version within weeks.

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